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THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

FIDEL CASTRO

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on the 13th August 1926 in Las Manacas. He worked on his fathers plantation and saw poverty and injustice. In 1949 Fidels child is born and is named Felix Fidel ‘Fidelito’ Castro Ruz and a year later he graduates from law school. He goes to jail for 15 years but was released due to political pressure on the president at the time Fulgencio Batista. He then gets exiled into mexico, where he meets Che Guevara and plans the cuban revolution. After the revolution he becomes president of Cuba.


CHE GUEVARA

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born in Argentine in a town called Rosario in 1928. He studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and then worked as a doctor. He witnessed the socialist government of President Jacobo Arbenz overthrown by an American military coup in 1954. He then met Fidel Castro in Mexico after being disgusted by the socialist government in Argentine.


RAUL CASTRO

Raul Castro was on the 3rd of June 1931 in Biran, Cuba. He is one of the younger brothers of Fidel Castro. Raul is a Cuban revolutionary and is currently a politician and President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008.


JUAN ALMEIDA BOSQUE

Juan Almeida Bosque was born on the 17th February 1927 in Havana, Cuba. He was one of the original commanders of the Cuban Revolution and he was a Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State before dying on the 11th of September 2009.


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